Soviet leader Joseph Stalin first heard officially ... show trials of his former political rivals who were put to death. All told, thousands of party, industrial, and military leaders disappeared ...

At the time, Soviet leaders reportedly feared that Beria would use his control of the secret police to fully seize power. Beria was later tried and convicted of treason and was executed in Moscow ...

In 2019 the last Soviet leader was admitted for pneumonia. Gorbachev was the top Soviet leader when he held the posts of general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the ...

The informant also cites Brooks as saying that Light, leader of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jewry ... be best kept out of the public eye. “All of this, of course, is secret, because ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... them from leaving and often punished them for seeking exit at all. The number of Jews allowed to emigrate in 1985 was already ...